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At 7:30 PM, while the main activity continues to push more southward through the northern parts of Central Alabama, more storms are forming along an outflow boundary that is moving through the eastern half of Jefferson County.
Great news! Our radar in Hytop, AL is back in service – two days earlier than predicted. Just in time for several rounds of showers and thunderstorms that will impact the TN Valley this evening and overnight.
At 4:00 pm, a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms is moving southeastward across the southern portions of Tennessee and into the northern parts of Alabama.
As of 1:00 pm, much of North and Central Alabama remains dry with the exception of a few isolated showers that have popped up over the southeastern parts of the area.
Nearly a clean sweep on radar at 12:42 pm with the exception of an isolated shower that has recently popped up in the western parts of Walker County, and a few isolated showers over a small portion of Pike and Barbour counties.
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At 12:15 pm, it is nearly a complete clean sweep on radar across Central Alabama with the exception of a dissipating return over the northern parts of Barbour County.
Line of strong thunderstorms moving ever so slowly to the south through the southern portions of North Alabama and the northern parts of Central Alabama as of 8:15 PM.
We’ll have an increased risk of scattered showers & storms through the weekend before we get back to a more standard summertime pattern starting on Tuesday.
Beginning August 5, the KHTX WSR-88D radar operated by the NOAA National Weather Service in Huntsville, AL will be down for approximately five days for the scheduled refurbishment of the transmitter.
Radar at 12:15 pm shows a good bit of scattered showers and thunderstorms spread out across a large part of Central Alabama.
We’ll have an increased risk of scattered showers & storms for today and through the weekend before we get back to a more standard summertime pattern early next week.
At 12:10 pm, we have a good bit of scattered shower and thunderstorm activity over the northern half of the area while a few isolated showers and storms have popped up over the southern half of Central Alabama.
We’ll have an increased risk of scattered showers & storms for today and Thursday due to a cold front that will stall over the northern parts of the area, then we return to the standard summertime pattern for the weekend.
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At 12:50 pm, we have some scattered showers mostly across the east-central and northeastern parts of the area with most of the activity located along and just south of the I-59 corridor with only a couple of returns over the western half of the area.
